I am following a simple ADO.NET Entity/MVC 2 tutorial wherein my Views are created by right-clicking the action and selecting 'Add View'. The views get created based on my model and all is good. I can view the initial list of items from the DB but when I click Edit or Delete or Details I get 'Object reference not set to an instance of an...
I'm looking for an elegant pattern to solve this problem: I have several user roles in my system, and for many of my controller actions, I need to deal with slightly different data. For example, take /Users/Edit/1 This allows a Moderator to edit a users email address, but Administrators to edit a user's email address and password. ...
I build a drop down list in my aspx page as following <%= Html.DropDownList("SelectedRole", new SelectList((IEnumerable)Model.roles, "RoleId", "RoleName", Model.SelectedRole), "")%> it works fine for first Get and the first default value is selected; then I select item from the drop down list and submit the form. the controller bind ...
I've got a controller action that returns a FileResult like this return this.File("file.pdf", "application/pdf"); for the URL "/Download/322" - where 322 is the id of the file. This works great, so that if a user clicks on a link to the PDF - it will open in their web browser as long as they have a PDF plugin installed. But, what if...
I need to send some other data, ideally wrapped in a JSON object, down to the client. As well as that however I need to send a Partial view. Now I can only think of two ways: Send JSON object and then make another call to load contents of partial view into div. Send HTML for Partial View as a property of the JSON object and then load i...
My question is similar to "ASP.NET 2 projects to share same files", but with an ASP.NET MVC slant. Basically, we have two sites, one being based mostly on the other (roughly 90% views, controllers, images, in the second are identical to the first). However, in some cases, the views may be different, or a controller in the second site ma...
I have created a ViewUserControl in my ASP.NET MVC 2 project. This ViewUserControl serves as the general page-header for all views in the project. How can I add a custom property on ViewUserControls, accessible from views using that control?..: <%@ Register Src="../Shared/Header.ascx" TagName="Header" TagPrefix="uc" %> <uc...
I am trying to figure out how to correctly and efficiently unit test my Asp.net MVC project. When I started on this project I bought the Pro ASP.Net MVC, and with that book I learned about TDD and unit testing. After seeing the examples, and the fact that I work as a software engineer in QA in my current company, I was amazed at how aw...
I am using Yahoo Editor for my asp.net mvc (C#) application. When i tried to use the iframe, its ripping of the complete html. It works in Chrome, but not in Firefox and IE. I have tried pasting the below html in http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/editor/code_editor.html. <iframe src="http://www.google.com" width="100%" height="3...
I am trying to use jquery validator plugin and form submit via ajax in jquery..... Validator plugin works with <input type="submit" value="Add a client" id="clientadd"/> but my form submit works with <input type="button" value="Add a client" id="clientadd"/>..... <form id="addform" autocomplete="off"> //My controls here </form> I di...
I've been an ASP.NET developer for some time, always working on existing ASP.NET pages, modifying functionality, adding features, tweaking things etc. but have never built a site up from scratch. I've read books on ASP.NET, and they generally talk you through the various features of ASP.NET with a mock up site, but it's always very basic...
Short question is: how can i use graph api oauth redirects mechanism to authenticate user and save retrieved access_token and also use javascript SDK when needed (the problem is javascript SDK will have different access_token when initialized). I have initially setup my facebook iframe canvas app, with single sign on. This works well wi...
If I am creating a website in ASP.NET, is it possible to programmatically set the title of the page be some predefined value with some extra information tacked on? For example: Home Page Title = Site Name Links Title = Site Name: Links Stuff Title = Site Name: Stuff Basically, whatever I defined as the main title on ...
I have a partial view called StudentInfo.ascx. In it I have something like this: <fieldset> <legend>Students Information</legend> <div> <label>First Name:</label> <label>Last Name:</label> </div> </fieldset> I have another partial view called Detail.ascx which will need to display this StudentInfo.ascx. I did somethin...
Since HandleError is inherited by the derived Controllers, why wouldn't I just create (or have) a base controller, and apply HandleError on it so that any controllers that inherits from the base controller will automatically be handled as well? And then I would tack on overriding HandleError on controllers and individual actions. Can a...
I am trying to share sessions between two web applications, both hosted on the same server. One is a .net 2.0 web forms application the other is as .net 3.5 MVC2 application. Both apps have their session set up like this: <sessionState mode="StateServer" stateConnectionString="tcpip=127.0.0.1:42424" /> In the webfo...
Hi! I have a login page with an input of type "password" I would like to have a virtual keyboard to enter the password. I've searched and I found the jquery script for virtual keyboard. The code said to add this to my page $('input[type=password]').keyboard({ layout: "qwerty", customLayout: [["q w e r t y {bk...
I'm getting some weird behavior in asp.net MVC2 (at least it's not what I'm expecting). I have a controller httppost action that processes credit cards. I'm setting a session variable on the server to let me know if a user has attempted to process a card. I clear that session variable when I'm done. I am doing some very quick posts t...
When I look at ASP.NET MVC projects I everytime see loose coupled architecture. For what do I need a loose coupling in a web architecture (if I do not make unit tests)? What are advantages and disadvantages of this? ...
Hello (this is a long post sorry), I am writing a application in ASP.NET MVC 2 and I have reached a point where I am receiving this error when I connect remotely to my Server. Failed to generate a user instance of SQL Server due to failure in retrieving the user's local application data path. Please make sure the user has a local user ...